final

some things happening this week

concert tonight
http://honens.com/PerformancesEvents/Category/Leif-Ove-Andsnes--Pictures-Reframed-.aspx

Peter Lynch from Project Grizzly at the Plaza on Wed
infos http://www.calgarycinema.org/

http://www.robinarseneault.com/ thursday 7pm lecture hall 340

new shows at truck and new gallery

Real Life: Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner at the glenbow

50 ideas in 50 minutes

something from cory arcangel

version with okay visuals, not so hot sound

Continual Partial Awareness: Premiere of a new performance by Cory Arcangel from Rhizome on Vimeo.

version with better sound, but kinda shaky camera work





or, just the audio http://mylifeandprophecies.blogspot.com/2008/11/cory-arcangel-bootleg-comedy-album.html

A project with an unlimited budget...

I would, without any hesitation, open up a gigantic aquarium for Calgary.
I would create the most luxurious exhibitions for the most gorgeous exotic sea life.
I mean, if you're going to be shoved above natural sea level, you might as well look and feel great.

If I had unlimited budget

I would take all the time to make myself into an art piece. Learn; violin, Korean, how to sing ,and take yoga and enjoy life. Buy lots of wine and delicious food (especially cheese's) :D

If I had all the money in the world...

I'd party with Mariah.

The Martian Project

When I was a little girl I had this grand idea to build a waterslide that would be attached to the moon and the earth. You could go up to the moon in a spaceship and ride the waterslide all the way down to your home country, or you could choose to stop at various space ports along the way.

Because I was interested in the idea of traveling through space, and because I was obviously not concerned with the reality of physics and gravity, I think that a project with an unlimited fund would have to take on a similar disregard for the rules. Something really wild would be to terraform a planet such as mars. I would take over the whole planet to set up an animation and film arts studio just for me and the artists that I would choose to work with. There, on mars, we could work to shoot and animate a film that would be about the earth, reflecting all the problems and challenges that we face today. The studio would have the most powerful still and video cameras in the world, as well as the most expensive animation and editing software. It would be one of those pieces of video that the whole world watches, like the moon landings, and hopefully it would have a powerful effect on large corporations and make them realize that they are killing the planet. The film would offer new and inventive ways of possibly redesigning society so that there would be no religion, as well as harnessing the energy from surrounding bodies in the galaxy to provide enough energy to solve problems of consumption.

Back to the waterslide idea, the tunnel would be made of a transparent material so you could see space zooming by as you made your way down to earth. The tunnel would be full of spins, turns and loops. The water would be maintained at the perfect temperature and there would be those little glow in the dark stars stickers on the inside, too.